Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Knives, not used at meals after a funeral, 227; of special pattern used in reaping rice, 414 |
| Knots, tying up the wind in, 81; prohibition to wear, 174; untied at childbirth, 238, 240; thought to prevent the consummation of marriage, 240; thought to cause sickness and disease, 241; used to cure disease, win a lover, or stop a runaway, 242; magical virtue of, 242–243; tied in branches of trees as remedies, 545 |
| Koniags of Alaska, 600 |
| Koran, on magical knots, 241 |
| Kore, Maiden, title of Persephone, 420 |
| Kore, expelled on Easter Eve in Albania, 560 |
| Koryaks, the, 156, 521, 523 |
| Koschei the Deathless, story of, 671 |
| Kostroma, funeral of, in Russia, 318 |
| Kostrubonko, death and resurrection of, 317 |
| Koui hunters in Laos, 529 |
| Krishna, Hindoo god, 101 |
| Kublai Khan, 228 |
| Kuhn, Adalbert, 644 |
| Kukulu, priestly king, 169 |
| Kumis of South-eastern India, 549 |
| Kunama, the, 107 |
| Kupalo, mythical being, 317–318, 627, 652 |
| Kurmis of India, 565 |
| Kurnai of Victoria, 190, 689 |
| Kuruvikkarans of Southern India, 94 |
| Kwakiutl Indians, 66, 527, 678 |
| Labyrinth, the Cretan, 280 |
| Lac, taboos observed in gathering, 21 |
| Lada, mythical being in Russia, 318 |
| Ladder, for the use of a tree-spirit, 116; to facilitate the descent of the sun, 136 |
| Lafitau, J. F., 256 |
| Lagos, in West Africa, 295, 433 |
| Lagrange, Father, 338 |
| Lake-dwellers of Europe, 399 |
| Lakor, island of, 566 |
| Laluba, the, of the Upper Nile, 85 |
| Lama of Tibet, the Grand, 102–103 |
| Lamb, blood of, tasted by priestess to procure inspiration, 94; as expiatory victim, 224; thrown into lake as an offering, 390; killed sacramentally, 534 |
| Laments for Tammuz, 326; for Osiris, 366 |
| Lamps, dedication of, 3; to light ghosts to their old homes, 374 |
| Landen, the battlefield of, 340 |
| Language, special, 99; change of, caused by taboo, 254, 255, 257 |
| Lanquineros, the, 138 |
| Laos, in Siam, taboos observed at, 21, 23, 219, 594 |
| Lapis manalis used in rain-making ceremony at Rome, 78 |
| Lappland, tying up the wind in, 81 |
| Lapps, the, 221, 238, 243, 256, 521, 529, 606 |
| Latin League, the, 150, 167 |
| Latinus, King, 149 |
| Latium, ancient, the woods of, 150; succession to the kingdom in, 152–158 |
| Latukas of the Upper Nile, 85, 87, 229 |
| Laurel, 95, 148 |
| Laws of Manu, 89, 100 |
| Le Mole, on the Lake of Nemi, 4 |
| Leaf Man, the Little, 128; King, 130 |
| Leaping, to make crops grow high, 28; over bonfires, 560, 610, 613, 621, 624–626, 630, 631, 646, 656 |
| Learchus, son of King Athamas, 290, 291 |
| Leaves, disease transferred to, 539; fatigue transferred to, 540; used to expel demons, 567 |
| Lechrain, 646; burying the Carnival in, 307 |
| Legs not to be crossed, 239, 240 |
| Leinster, taboos observed by the ancient kings of, 173 |
| Lemon, external souls of ogres in a, 669 |
| Lendu tribe of Central Africa, 85 |
| Lengua Indians, the, 82, 88, 253, 294, 526 |
| Lent, personification of, 304 |
| Lenten fires, 609 |
| Leo the Great, 359 |
| Leopard’s blood drunk or heart eaten to make eater brave, 495 |
| Leopards, 523; external human souls in, 684–686 |
| Lepers sacrificed by the Mexicans, 444 |
| Leprosy, 473 |
| Lerida in Catalonia, funeral of the Carnival at, 304 |
| Lerotse leaves used in purification, 484 |
| Leti, island of, marriage of the Sun and Earth in, 136; annual expulsion of diseases in, 566 |
| Leto, 120 |
| Letts of Russia, swing to make the flax grow high, 289 |
| Leucadians, 579 |
| Leucippe, daughter of Minyas, 292 |
| Lewis, the island of, 81 |
| Lhota Naga, the, 433 |
| Libyans, the Alitemnian, 156 |
| Licence, periods of, 158, 553, 555, 558, 575, 583 |
| Lightning, magical imitation of, 63; imitation of, by kings, 77, 149; talismans against, 614, 615, 626, 637, 638, 649; regarded as a god descending out of heaven, 708; strikes oak oftener than any other tree, 708, 709; places struck by, enclosed and deemed sacred, 709 |
| Lime-trees, sacred, 161 |
| Linus or Ailinus, Phoenician vintage song, 425, 442 |
| Lion, purification of killer of a, 221; flesh or heart eaten to make eater brave, 495 |
| Lithuania, tree-worship in, 110; sacred groves in, 118; May Day in, 126; last sheaf in, 405; harvest customs in, 406, 428; ceremonies observed at eating the new corn in, 480, 481; Midsummer fires in, 627 |
| Lithuanians, 161, 227, 665 |
| Lityerses, 424–447 |
| Lizard, soul in form of, 182; or snake, in ceremony for riddance of evils, 568 |
| Ljeschie, Russian wood-spirits, 465 |
| Llama, black, as scapegoat, 565 |
| Loango, king of, 86, 98, 199–201; taboos observed by kings of, 171; food tabooed to priests in, 238; girls secluded at puberty in, 595 |